Styling

This guide covers how to recolor calendar cells, restyle event wrappers, and replace the markup inside events without touching the underlying view layout.

How styling hooks fit together

The calendar gives you three customization points. Each one solves a different problem:

• cellCss adds CSS classes to background grid cells (day boxes, hour slots, resource columns).
• eventCss adds CSS classes to the outer event element.
• eventContent swaps the markup rendered inside the event wrapper.

Keep them separate. cellCss paints the canvas. eventCss paints the event's frame. eventContent rewrites what's inside the frame. The render layer still owns positioning, overlap handling, drag, and resize - these hooks only change classes or inner content.

Two rules to keep in mind:

• eventCss doesn't replace event.css. The renderer concatenates both, so a static class on the event data and a dynamic class returned by the callback both end up on the wrapper.
• eventContent only changes the inside of the wrapper. The outer element is still owned by the calendar (.wx-box-event, .wx-bar-event, agenda row, year tooltip row).

Painting cells with cellCss

cellCss is a callback that runs for every rendered grid or month cell. It receives a CellContext and returns a class name string.

cellCss?: (ctx: CellContext) => string;

interface CellContext {
  view: string;
  section: string;
  mode: "grid" | "bars" | "boxes" | "list" | "year";
  x: ScaleUnit | null;   // x-axis unit (null when no x-scale)
  y: ScaleUnit | null;   // y-axis unit (null when no y-scale)
  date: Date | null;     // resolved date when at least one axis is a date
}

What's in ctx depends on the view:

• In month view, the class lands on the actual day cell. x and y are null; only date is set.
• In day, week, timeline, and resources views, the class lands on background cells generated from scale headers. x and y carry the active scale units. For non-date axes (resources, units), x.id / y.id is the resource id.
• date comes from the date-bearing axis. If both axes are dates, the renderer combines the date part of one with the time part of the other. If only one axis is a date, date matches that axis. If neither axis is a date, date is null.

cellCss runs only for background grids in bars / boxes / grid sections and for the month grid. It doesn't apply to list (agenda) or year sections.

Marking weekends, holidays, and lunch hours

Branch on date and section to apply different classes per condition:

import { Calendar } from "@svar-ui/react-calendar";

const cellCss = (ctx) => {
  const { date, section } = ctx;
  if (!date) return "";

  const day = date.getDay();
  if (day === 0 || day === 6) return "weekend";

  if (
    section === "timeGrid" &&
    date.getHours() >= 12 &&
    date.getHours() < 13
  ) {
    return "lunch";
  }

  if (day === 5) return "holiday";
  return "";
};

<Calendar events={events} date={date} cellCss={cellCss} />

/* styles.css */
.weekend { background-color: #f5f0ff !important; }
.holiday { background-color: #fde8e8 !important; }
.lunch   { background-color: #fef9e7 !important; }

Two things to notice:

• The lunch branch checks section === "timeGrid" so the class fires only on the hour grid, not on the multiday strip.
• CSS classes need to be defined globally (not scoped) because cellCss returns unscoped class names.

Per-resource styling in timeline and resources views

Read the discrete axis directly:

const cellCss = (ctx: CellContext): string => {
	// timeline: resource is on Y; resources view: resource is on X
	const resourceId = ctx.y?.id ?? ctx.x?.id;
	return resourceId ? `row-${resourceId}` : "";
};

This gives you per-row or per-column tinting in resource-based views without parsing dates.

Restyling event wrappers with eventCss

eventCss runs for every rendered event and returns classes added to the outer element.

eventCss?: (ctx: EventContext) => string;

interface EventContext {
  event: CalendarEvent;
  view: string;     // "day" | "week" | "month" | "timeline" | ...
  section: string;  // section name from the view model
  mode: "grid" | "bars" | "boxes";
}

The mode field tells you how the event is being rendered:

• boxes for timed blocks in day, week, and resources views.
• bars for horizontal bar layouts (multiday section, timeline).
• grid for month-view event bars inside day cells.

Use view to tell apart renders that share a mode - day and week both render bars and boxes. Use section when you need to vary by source section, which matters most in resources view, where each resource is its own section.

Coloring events by priority

Combine an event field with the render mode:

import { Calendar } from "@svar-ui/react-calendar";

const eventCss = (ctx) => {
  const { event, mode } = ctx;
  const cls = `priority-${event.priority || "default"}`;

  if (mode === "grid")  return cls + " grid-event";
  if (mode === "bars")  return cls + " bar-event";
  if (mode === "boxes") return cls + " box-event";
  return cls;
};

<Calendar events={events} date={date} eventCss={eventCss} />

/* styles.css */
.priority-high   { background-color: #c62828 !important; }
.priority-medium { background-color: #ef6c00 !important; }
.priority-low    { background-color: #2e7d32 !important; }

This is the right hook for:

• background and border colors;
• per-view variants of the same event;
• wrapper states like selected, urgent, blocked, or tentative.

Combining with event.css

If you'd rather carry a static class on the event data, set event.css. The renderer concatenates it with the value returned by eventCss:

const events = [{ id: 1, text: "Holiday", start, end, css: "vacation" }];

The wrapper ends up with vacation plus whatever eventCss returns at render time.

Replacing event markup with eventContent

When classes aren't enough, swap the body of the event for your own component.

eventContent?: React.ComponentType;

Pass a React component:

import { Calendar } from "@svar-ui/react-calendar";
import EventContent from "./EventContent.jsx";

<Calendar
  events={events}
  views={["day", "week", "month"]}
  view="week"
  date={date}
  eventContent={EventContent}
/>

The component receives:

{
	event: CalendarEvent;
	mode: "grid" | "bars" | "boxes" | "list" | "year-tooltip";
}

Branch on mode so the same component works across views:

const fmt = (d) =>
  d.toLocaleTimeString([], { hour: "2-digit", minute: "2-digit" });

function EventContent({ event, mode }) {
  if (mode === "boxes") {
    return (
      <div className="custom-box">
        <div className="custom-box-header">{event.text}</div>
        <div className="custom-time">{fmt(event.start)} - {fmt(event.end)}</div>
        {event.priority && (
          <div className={`custom-badge custom-badge-${event.priority}`}>
            {event.priority}
          </div>
        )}
      </div>
    );
  }

  return <span className="custom-bar">{event.text}</span>;
}

export default EventContent;

A few things worth knowing:

• The outer element is still the calendar's wrapper. Apply layout and color there with eventCss, and use eventContent for the inner structure (icons, badges, multi-line text).
• mode === "list" is the agenda row. mode === "year-tooltip" is the small popup shown when hovering a day in year view. Handle them when those views are part of views.
• If the same component should produce different markup in month bars vs. timeline bars, branch on mode === "grid" (month) separately from mode === "bars".

Pairing with tooltip and eventPopup

Two related hooks customize the secondary surfaces:

• tooltip - React component shown on hover. Receives { event }, or { events } for year-day hover.
• eventPopup - React component shown on click. Receives { event, close } and replaces the default editor opening.

<Calendar
  events={events}
  date={date}
  eventContent={EventContent}
  tooltip={EventTooltip}
  eventPopup={EventPopup}
/>

eventContent controls the always-visible body. tooltip is the hover preview. eventPopup is the click detail card.

Picking the right hook

Quick decision table:

• Cell state depends on date, time, view, or section → cellCss.
• Event wrapper should change color, border, density, or per-view classes → eventCss.
• Event needs different inner structure (badges, icons, multi-line text) → eventContent.
• Hover preview → tooltip. Click detail card → eventPopup.

For prop signatures and full type definitions, see the API reference for cellCss, eventCss, eventContent, tooltip, and eventPopup.